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About LISTA & LISTA with Full Text

Two versions of LISTA are available in GALILEO:

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. 

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) with Full Text is identical to LISTA, except it also includes over 150 titles in full text, including Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Library Journal, and Searcher.

This guide will primarily refer to LISTA with Full Text.

Getting into LISTA with Full Text

  • Log into GALILEO.  If you’re off campus, log in through Anywhere Access.

  • Select Social Sciences, and then click on the Education link.

Highlights the Education link under the Social Sciences tab of GALILEO.
  • Now click on the link to Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text (LISTA)

Highlights the LISTA with Full Text database link in GALILEO

Basic Search

  • Lot into LISTA with Full Text

  • In the Find window, type in your search terms.

  • Use Boolean Operators and Truncation to limit your results.  Put phrases in double quotation marks (“ “).

  • Left-click on Search

Highlights searching for the word "cataloging" in LISTA

Advanced Search

The Advanced Search allows you to search within particular fields. Let's use the example of searching for articles that have the word "indexing" in the title, but were written by individuals with the last name “Johnson.”

  • Log into LISTA with Full Text

  • Left-click on the Advanced Search tab.

  • In the first box, type in indexing, and then select TI Title in the drop-down menu.

  • In the second box, type in Johnson, and then select AU Author in the drop-down menu.

  • Left-click on Search.

Highlights the Advanced Search tab, and searching for the word "indexing" in the "title" field, and the name "Johnson" in the Author field.

LISTA with Full Text also provides ways to refine your results, as seen above:

  • Full Text – only those items that have full-text articles available through EBSCOhost provided databases. However, you may have access to full-text articles through non-EBSCOhost databases. For more information, read Getting Your Hands on the Articles.
  • Publication – only those items within a certain journal/magazine.
  • Published Date – published within these dates.
  • Scholarly (Peer Review) Journals – Peer reviewed items
  • References Available – only those items that have references.
  • Document Type – only items of a certain type (article, book, case study, dissertation, etc.)
  • Cover Story – only cover stories.

Narrow Results by Subject

If you find that you are getting too many results, you can quickly reduce your results by narrowing by subject.

  • Perform a search in LISTA with Full Text.

  • On the left side of the screen, look at the subjects listed under Narrow Results by Subject.

  • Click on an appropriate subject to narrow your results.

Highlights the "Narrow Results by Subject" section on the results page.

Cited References Search

LISTA with Full Text also gives the option of searching for cited references.  This will show items that have citations of a particular author, source, title or year.

  • Log into LISTA with Full Text

  • Left-click on the Cited References link.

  • Type in the name of the cited Author, Title, Source or Year.

  • Left-click on Search.

Highlights the "Cited References" link
  • Your results will show cited works that have been indexed in LISTA with Full Text.

Displays the results of a search for "Johnson, B" as a cited reference.

Times Cited in this Database

  • Some records in LISTA with Full Text will display Times Cited in this Database.

Highlights the "Times Cited in this Database" link on a record page.
  • If you click the Times Cited in this Database hyperlink on a Result, the Citing Articles sub-tab presents a list of records that cite your original article.

Shows the results of clicking on the "Times Cited in this Database" link -- the article which cited the previous record.

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